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Adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline

Granted 4 Jul 2017 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Hsin-Hung Chuang

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Inventors: Hsin-Hung Chuang · Examiner: Catherine A Simone · AU 1781 · TC 1700

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Abstract

An adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline comprises a substrate layer with a first surface and a second surface, an adhesive material layer, and a highlighting baseline layer: the adhesive material layer has one plane contacting the first surface or the second surface of the substrate layer and the other plane adhering to an object in which some text contents are included; the highlighting baseline layer designed on the first surface or the second surface of the substrate layer gets close to and highlights the text contents in an object to which the other plane of the adhesive material layer adheres.

Description

5 parts
›BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present disclosure relates to an adhesion device, particularly an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline.

2. Descriptions of the Related Art

To review critical texts on a book or a written document, a reader has to take a fluorescent marker pen to highlight or underscore the texts currently. A conventional method to highlight texts, however, is not ideal while contaminating a book or a written document or even degrading overall quality of the book or the written document in case of any error mark which should be covered or corrected with a correction tape (pen).

To avoid the disadvantages, a user usually tears off a single sticky note or fluorescent note available in the market, sticking the reusable note on any position as required and highlighting any text. In practice, there is one disadvantage existing in the single sticky note or fluorescent note which is torn off and stuck for highlights, that is, the conventional sticky note or fluorescent note fails to effectively highlight critical texts and is inconvenient.

Against this background, a sticky note which is competent in truly highlighting critical texts will be an optimal solution.

›SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present disclosure relates to an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline which adheres to and highlights an object on which text contents are printed.

An adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in the present disclosure comprises: a substrate layer which features light permeability and has a first surface and a second surface; an adhesive material layer which features light permeability and has two planes, one plane contacting either the first surface or the second surface of the substrate layer and the other plane adhering to an object on which text contents are printed; a highlighting baseline layer embedded between the substrate layer and the adhesive material layer and keeping a short distance from the substrate layer's edge by a margin.

In a preferred embodiment, the margin from the highlighting baseline layer to the edge of the substrate layer is less than 7 mm.

In a preferred embodiment, the highlighting baseline layer presents a solid line, a dotted line, a chain line or a wave line.

In a preferred embodiment, the highlighting baseline layer is less than 5 mm in width.

In a preferred embodiment, the substrate layer is colored and features light permeability.

An adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline, comprising: a substrate layer which features light permeability and has a first surface and a second surface; an adhesive material layer which features light permeability and has two planes, one plane contacting either the first surface or the second surface of the substrate layer and the other plane adhering to an object on which text contents are printed; a highlighting baseline layer situated at the other plane of the adhesive material layer to which no substrate layer is stuck and keeping a short distance from the substrate layer's edge by a margin.

›BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic top view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline.

FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline.

FIG. 3A is a schematic view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in an embodiment.

FIG. 3B is a schematic view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in an embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic sectional view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in another embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a structural schematic view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view which illustrates another highlighting baseline in an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view which illustrates a further highlighting baseline in an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline.

FIG. 8 is a schematic view which illustrates yet another highlighting baseline in an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline.

FIG. 9 is a structural schematic view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in another embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline for the first example in another embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline for the second example in another embodiment.

›DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS · 1 of 2

The embodiments and/or application methods for an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline are disclosed hereinafter. In addition to specific components or structures disclosed in embodiments herein, other components or structures equivalent to or changed from the specific components or structures herein by the skilled person who familiarizes himself with the technical features in the present disclosure should be covered in claims of the patent specification.

The technical contents, features and effects related to an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline are clearly presented in preferred embodiments and accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 which are a schematic top view and a schematic sectional view of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline, respectively. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 , an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in the present disclosure comprises a substrate layer 1 , an adhesive material layer 2 and a highlighting baseline layer 3 . The substrate layer 1 which features translucency or light permeability is less than 15 mm in width and has a first surface 11 and a second surface 12 . The adhesive material layer 2 which features translucency or light permeability has two planes; one plane contacts the second surface 12 of the substrate layer 1 . The highlighting baseline layer 3 , which is embedded between the second surface 12 of the substrate layer 1 and the adhesive material layer 2 and close to a top or bottom edge of the substrate layer 1 , keeps a distance from the top edge or the bottom edge by a margin, W 2 , less than 7 mm and has a width, W 1 , less than 5 mm.

As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B , the other plane of the adhesive material layer 2 adheres to an object 4 (e.g., book, paper, etc.) on which text contents 41 are presented, for example, the adhesive material layer 2 adheres to the object 4 with the highlighting baseline layer 3 getting close to the text contents 41 . The text contents 41 are covered by but clearly seen through the substrate layer 1 when the substrate layer 1 and the adhesive material layer 2 , both of which are made from materials with translucency or light permeability, are stuck to the object 4 . The highlighting baseline layer 3 situated at the top or the bottom of the substrate layer 1 is used to highlight the text contents 41 .

To clearly indicate the covered text contents 41 , some translucent toners or pigments which colorize the substrate layer 1 and keep translucency or light permeability of the substrate layer 1 can be added into the substrate layer 1 as required.

As shown in FIG. 4 , the highlighting baseline layer 3 , which was embedded between the second surface 12 of the substrate layer 1 and the adhesive material layer 2 in the previous embodiment, is placed on the first surface 11 of the substrate layer 1 and gets close to a top or bottom edge of the substrate layer 1 in another embodiment. Moreover, an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline which is designed as a curly structure as shown in a further embodiment in FIG. 5 is curled and similar to a rolled adhesive tape; the substrate layer 1 developed outward can be easily taken and used by a user.

The highlighting baseline layer 3 is printed and stuck to the first surface 11 or the second surface 12 of the substrate layer 1 .

As shown in FIG. 1 , the highlighting baseline layer 3 is a solid line. In addition, a highlighting baseline layer 5 between the second surface 12 of the substrate layer 1 and the adhesive material layer 2 can be a wave line, as shown in FIG. 6 ; a highlighting baseline layer 6 between the second surface 12 of the substrate layer 1 and the adhesive material layer 2 can be a chain line, as shown in FIG. 7 ; a highlighting baseline layer 7 between the second surface 12 of the substrate layer 1 and the adhesive material layer 2 can be a dotted line, as shown in FIG. 7 . In addition to a solid line, a wave line, a chain line and a dotted line, another type of line can be applied in a highlighting baseline layer 3 .

An adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline can be repeatedly stuck to or stripped from an object when the adhesive material layer 2 is made from a material for reuses.

As shown in FIG. 9 , a stripping layer 8 (made of plastic film or paper material) adheres to the second surface 11 of the substrate layer 1 . In the embodiment, the stripping layer 8 can be stripped from the second surface 11 of the substrate layer 1 in which release agents are included. There are two examples in the embodiment and the first example is explained as follows. As shown in FIG. 10 , the adhesion device slips out of an output device 9 when a toothed wheel 91 rolls. The stripping layer 8 on the top of the long-stripped adhesion device, which is placed at the bottom of the output device 9 , has one end independently joining the toothed wheel 91 ; the adhesion device slips out of the output port 92 when the output device 9 slides on an inside page of the object 4 (book). With one end independently joining the toothed wheel 91 , the stripping layer 8 on the adhesion device slipping out of the output port 92 is synchronously stripped from the second surface 11 of the substrate layer 1 and not left on the adhesion device adhering to an inside page of the object 4 (book) to which the adhesive material layer 2 is stuck. The text contents 41 are covered by but clearly seen through the substrate layer 1 when the substrate layer 1 and the adhesive material layer 2 , both of which are made from materials with translucency or light permeability, adhere to the surface of the object 4 . Moreover, the highlighting baseline layer 3 situated at the top or the bottom of the substrate layer 1 is used to highlight the text contents 41 for transfer print effect.

In addition to the first example, the adhesion device with the stripping layer 8 directly applied is shown in the second example in FIG. 11 . When the adhesion device adheres to an inside page of the object 4 (book), the adhesion device with the stripping layer 8 applied is stuck to the text contents 41 of the object 4 because of viscosity of the adhesive material layer 2 . To expose the highlighting baseline layer 3 which is covered by the stripping layer 8 and highlight key words or sentences, a user should manually remove the stripping layer 8 from the second surface 11 of the substrate layer 1 .

›DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS · 2 of 2

In contrast to other devices based on conventional techniques, an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline herein has advantages as follows:

1. An adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline adheres to and highlights text contents on an object effectively. 2. An adhesion device, which highlights or marks an object's text contents on an adhesion basis, keeps the object clean and repeatedly used without filth induced by a fluorescent marker pen or a ball pen on the object.

The preferred embodiments hereof should not be taken as examples to restrict the scope of an adhesion device with a text highlighting baseline in the present disclosure. The equivalent changes and modifications made by the skilled person who familiarizes himself with the above technical features and embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure should be covered in claims of the patent specification.

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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section B — Performing operations; transporting
  • B32B7/14
  • B42D5/00
  • B32B7/12
  • B32B7/06

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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USUS-2016009118-A1A114 Jan 20168 Jul 2015publishedAdhesion device with a text highlighting baseline
USthis patentUS-9694615-B2B24 Jul 20178 Jul 2015grantedAdhesion device with a text highlighting baseline
JPJP-2016016671-AA1 Feb 201622 Jan 2015publishedSticking device having character point marking line
JPJP-6012779-B2B225 Oct 201622 Jan 2015granted文字ポイントマーキング線を有する貼付材ja
JPJP-2017007347-AA12 Jan 201715 Sep 2016published文字ポイントマーキング線を有する貼付材ja
JPJP-6224192-B2B21 Nov 201715 Sep 2016granted文字ポイントマーキング線を有する貼付材ja
KRKR-20160006118-AA18 Jan 20166 Jul 2015published텍스트 강조 기준선을 갖는 접착 도구ko
KRKR-20170115991-AA18 Oct 201728 Sep 2017publishedAn adhesion device with text highlighting baseline
CNCN-105255374-AA20 Jan 201626 Jun 2015publishedPasting device with character heavy point marking line
CNCN-105255374-BB1 Dec 201726 Jun 2015grantedPasting device with character heavy point marking line
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TWTW-201601945-AA16 Jan 20168 Jul 2014publishedSticking device with key characters marking line
TWTW-I560079-BB1 Dec 20168 Jul 2014grantedno title held

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